Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary

Klappentext This volume represents the most comprehensive English-Welsh dictionary ever compiled. It opens up the immense resources of a language which not only carries a rich cultural heritage but is changing and adapting to meet increasing use in public administration, the media, education and commercial life. This dictionary is indispensable for learners and first-language speakers of Welsh alike and should find a place in homes, schools and offices throughout Wales; also in libraries and universities world-wide. Zusammenfassung This English-Welsh dictionary - modelled on the "Harrap Shorter French" dictionary - includes synonyms; illustrative quotations; idioms; accentuation; specialist and technical terms; regional variants; literary and colloquial registers; as well as place-names and personal names.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Jones Griffiths
• Assisted by: Bruce Griffiths (Editor), Dafydd Jones (Editor), Jones Dafydd (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.1995
• EAN: 9780708311868
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1186-8
• No. of pages: 1792
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Linguistics, English, dictionary, Welsh, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries, Academy, Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, Bilingual & Multilingual Dictionaries